High Quotes

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.